The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-26
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

AthenianS-A Historic Trunk.
GEORGIA.
Athens is bound to have a handsome ew
hotel.
An ice factory is to be established at
Macon.
Louis Moore is on trial at Georgetown for
murder
Athens counts on receiving 90, 900 bales of
cotton this season.
1t is thought that twenty more stores con-
veniently located in Athens could be rented
at handsome profit
The five room dwelling house on VIII
Longs place about three miles from Athens
was burned Friday night
Dr. L. s. Lyndon has already invested
about So, 900 in improving the old Wither-
spoon planning mill at Athens.
Jackson county will soon be dry. On
Jan. the license will expire, and then the
barkeeper will have to go over TO NJ Olson.
II. o. Wood, the confidence man who cut
a big figure at Griffin few months ago, has
ecently vlctimized the people of Spokane
Falls, Mich.
Mayor Hodgson says that he is confident
that Athens has over 10 600 population, and
is in favor of the census being taken early
in the new year.
1t is stated that DR.. L. G. Hartman, of
Harmony Grove, contemplates establishing
q large surgical institute and hospital COM
bined in Athens.
At Rome Friday F. johnson, while under
the influence of whisky, assaulted the
16-year-old son of Sam Shropshire and in
ficted wounds with knife ON his breast
from which it is feared he win die.
Four of Carrollton's merchants sold TO S.
NJ Inman g. Co. last week 900 bales of
$4,000. 1t was bought for Northern spin
ners and was shipped direct to the factories
The freight upon this cotton which had to
be prepaid, was $500.
A bright young man, who lives in Hart
county, recently visited a friend of his
mothers. She asked about his mother, and
inquired if she raised a good deal of poultry
this year. The young man scratched his
head in perplexity and then replied: Nm
no, mann. She planted good deal but the
chickens scratched it all up.n
1t is said that Hugh H. Gordon, Minter
and Fred D. Wimberly and others are get
ting ready to go into farming and stock
raising on large scale in Twiggs county,
with yards and depots at Macon and At
lanra. The capital stock of the company
will be some 81 200 900, 20 per cent. of
which is to be paid in before beginning
business. The plans have not all been per-
fected yet.
The Fulton County Commissioners have
determined to tunnel the Atlanta and Char
lotte Air Line track where the public road
crosses it near Ponce de Leon. Vehicles
have now to climb up a steep hill cross the
track and then go d3wn another hill on the
other side of the track In crossing the
track there is much danger by reason of
the large number Of trains passing daily,
and the Commissioners have wisely deter
mined to do away with this.
John Henderson, a well-lmown negro
horse thief, was convicted on four cases IN
Barlow county last year, and sentenced to
terms in the penitentiary aggregating
thirty-fiv years. He subsequently escaped
from the penitentiary by jumping from
running train down an embankment of 20
feet. The guards fired several shots at him,
but he escaped unhurt. Saturday Principal
Keeper Towers received information that
man answering his description is now in the
Bibb county chain gang.
The new Oostanaula steamer John T.
Warlick, whose building and equipment
will reopen the up-country trade to Rome
and bring thousands of bales of cotton TO
that market, besides being an important
factor in the commercial world of the city,
was steamed up Saturday and taken out
for a short trial trip down the Coosa. The
captain now has elaborate plans on foot for
the building of the most elegantly equipped
and commodious passenger steamer that
ever plowed the placid Coosa. Work on
her viii be begun at once
Americas Recorder: AS Henry Lawrence
was coming to Americas on foot, Oh the
crosStles OF the Americas, Preston and
Lumpkin road, a day or so ago, he heard q
noise of some kind in small pond by the
roadside and stepped off to see what it was
After long search he succeeded in running
large otter from the pond onto the road,
and well aimed blow disabled it so that its
capture was an easy matter. Henry then
killed and skinned It and came on to town,
where he easily disposed of its skin for
nice sum, as the otter was an unusually
large one.
Blakely NetCS: 'Grandman Sheffield
and Mrs. w. e. Sheffield, of Cedar Springs,
have been visiting Blakely this week, the
guests of Hon B. Chancy's family. While
here the elder lady went up to see the train,
which, though she has some time since
passed her three-score and ten wears she
has never seen before, and met at the depot
Mrs Isom Sheffield, sister-in-law nearly of
equal age, VIII rad come for the same pur-
pose. These oil old ladies took a good
look at the iron horse and expressed them
selves as well pleased with the wonderful
means of locomotion
~ luOmdSFllie, FRIDAY, q contract was
closed with the Union Iron Works com
pany, of Chattanooga, Tenn, to build for
TIE town standplpe of iron for the water
works, instead OF brick tower and steel
tank that were being erected when the acct
dent occurred. fatal alike to the contractor
aud tower. The old site will be abandoned
and new one near by selected. The pipe
will be 25 feet in diameter and 100 feet high,
with a capacity Of 80, 500 gallons. The cost
VIII be $1,000. The fall Of the tower cost
the contractors, according to the settlement,
$500, and the town about $1,000
Friday two colored men, Guy Mccarthy.
OF Opelika, Ala, and Richard johnson, of
Rustin, La, met in Griffin, and after com
pairing notes, discovered that they were
brothers, having been separated forty-one
years ago, during slavery times. Before
that time they belonged to the father of
Capt. j. W. Cox, of the Southern Express
Company, and each of them left their
homes for Griffin without any knowledge
OF the other, and it was only on their ar
rival there that their relationship was dis
covered. The meeting was a joyful ole.
and the brothers are now inseparable. The
Incidents remarkable one in that each
should start for the same point from his dis
tant home and arrive at about the same
time.
On Tuesday afternoon the stockholders of
the Thomasville National Bank met and
organized. The following directors were
elected: T. G. Mitchell, John T.. Metcalfe.
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